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جَفَّةٌ جف جفه جفة (S, K) and ↓ جُفَّةٌ , (Sgh, K,) but the latter is rare, (Sgh,) and ↓ جُفٌّ (S, K) and ↓ جَفٌّ , (K,) A company of men or people; a collective body thereof: (Ks, S, K:) or a great number (K) thereof. (TA.) You say, دُعِيتُ فِى جَفَّةِ النَّاسِ [I was summoned, or invited, among the collective body of people]. (S.) And جَاؤُوا جَفّةً وَاحِدَةً (S, K) They came in one collective body. (K.) لَا نَفَلَ فِى غَنِيمَةٍ حَتَّى تُقْسَمَ جَفَّةً, (S, Mgh,) or ↓ جُفَّةً , (K,) means [There shall be no gift of spoil] until it is divided altogether: (S, Mgh, K:) a saying of Ibn-'Abbás: (S, Mgh:) accord. to one reading, ↓ عَلَى جُفَّتِهِ , i. e., [until it is divided] among the collective body of the army first. (K. [Golius (here copied by Freytag) appears to have read, لَا تَقُلْ فِى غَنَمٍ; and hence to have said, of جَفَّةٌ, erroneously, " de pecore non dicitur nisi totus grex sit."])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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